“Community” star and “The Soup” host Joel McHale is no bandwagon jumper. Indeed, the 1991 Mercer Island High School grad has been a die-hard Seattle sports fan for a long time (check out his Twitter feed during a Hawks game for good-humored observations).

On Thursday McHale took on the role of Seahawks missionary during an appearance on Ellen Degeneres’ syndicated talk show “Ellen,” spreading the gospel of Russell Wilson, Richard Sherman and the 12th Man while explaining that watching the team’s win over the San Francisco 49ers in Sunday’s NFC Championship was “more stressful than being awake during surgery.”